Superconformal symmetry in six dimensions and its reduction to four

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 539, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 599-642

  Park, Jeong Hyuck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlation functions; Dimensional reduction; Superconformal symmetry; Superconformally covariant differential operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033074745     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00720-2     Document Type: Article

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